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The religious festivals were both religious and recreational. Even the Olympic Games (and other games) were religious festivals.
In anacient Greece was theatre seen as a threat to Greek religious practices?
help around the house and make the kids help her
Tragedies did not drift into comedies. The were performed at separate festivals: the tragic in the spring and the comic in the winter.
Women were used to run the home and bear and raise children, and kept in virtual purdah, getting out occasionally for women's religious festivals. It was very much a male dominated society. There were a few exceptions - Spartan women had a degree of equality, but not politically.
They were held as an integral part of religious festivals.
It was done as part of the annual religious festivals for various gods.
They were religious festivals in honour of the gods. The were held in cities at appropriate locations - first temples, then special theatres.
They were part of religious festivities in honour of the god/gods, just as athletic games were.
The religious festivals were both religious and recreational. Even the Olympic Games (and other games) were religious festivals.
They were held as an integral part of religious festivals.
kithara
Keeping the house, supervising slaves, food gardening, bearing and raising children and attending occasional women's religious festivals.
No, the gods dealt directly with people mainly via oracles and what we consider the acts of nature.
"Oracle" is a Title, there have been many Oracles of Apollo throughout ancient Greece and more modern times.
Demeter was primarily worshipped in the city of Eleusis in ancient Greece. The Eleusinian Mysteries, dedicated to Demeter and her daughter Persephone, were held there and are among the most famous religious festivals in ancient Greece.
I believe it derived from early religious festivals like that of the 'festival of Dionysis' in Ancient Greece. Head-dresses were used and dances were staged paving the way for scripted entertainment from the like of Aristohines. Drama could have gone further back as it depends on how you would categorise 'drama'. It certainly stemmed from festivals and Religious performances.